Ancient Beast

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Ancient Beast is a turn based strategy game played online against other people, featuring a wide variety of items and creatures to acquire and put to good use in order to defeat your opponents.

Ancient Beast is free, open source and developed by Freezing Moon (and community). It uses technologies such as HTML, PHP, and JavaScript, so it is playable from any modern browser without the need of plugins.
This project was carefuly designed to be easy to learn, fun to play and hard to master. We hope you'll enjoy it!

It's the year 2653. In the last centuries, technology advanced exponentially and everyone had a fair chance of playing God. With help from the RepRap project, a free desktop 3d printer, which gave anyone power to build their own weapon factory or genetic laboratory on their own property. Mechanic parts or genetic modifications turned from a fashion option into a requirement for survival.

Despite their combined efforts, the world's governments couldn't prevent the world from plunging into chaos. The Earth has become a battlefield; split between 7 factions fighting for dominion over the ravaged landscape. The apocalypse is here, and only the strong will survive.

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If someone is interested in a part-time coding job working on this project, check out this blog post http://ancientbeast.com/blog/2016-02-1/
The position will require you to maintain the gameplay, by fixing bugs, coding new unity abilities, revamping old ones, adding new features and coding online multiplayer functionality at some point.
The task mainly involves javascript, phaser, node.js, github and possibly playfab.com

Heya! I’m starting a mailing list for the project so I’m looking to build an audience.
I’ll be writing something about the project every month or so, along with development news and future plans. It’s a low traffic and spam free news that you can unsubscribe at any time. If you’re interest in the project, you can subscribe from the widget here (at the bottom of the page) https://AncientBeast.com/#subscribe The first post will be when the list reaches 50 subscribers, hope you’ll be part of it, thanks! :-)

Version 0.2 has been scheduled for release on 15th June!
This version will include more playable creatures, such as Uncle Fungus, Gumble and Abolished, a lot of balancing, bug fixes, usability enhancements and hopefully hotkeys!http://www.AncientBeast.com/game

The game is becoming more and more playable and even if it doesn't have online multiplayer for now being just hotseat, it can be played just fine using desktop sharing software such as http://www.teamviewer.com or maybe even http://www.samesurf.com
I want to gather more people who I can play Ancient Beast with and figure out more bugs and issues.
Also I want to record a gameplay video for 0.2 against a player that's rather challenging.
If you're interested in playing against me or maybe others, feel free to reply with your skype username in this thread.

Don't remove it :D I was sure you would say that. It will use Chromium Embedded Framework soon so it will be native (downloadable) and it will show up in Ubuntu Software Center etc. Similar scenario to Machinarium, which is a flash game.https://github.com/FreezingMoon/AncientBeast/issues/158

Yes, atm it's DOM and JS, but there was talk in our channel recently that it should be converted to canvas in order to allow animations and special effects easier, also, it could improve compatibility with various browsers and increase performance.

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